Author Archives: Boe Prox

PowerShell Deep Dives Book Now Available!

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Boe Prox

That is right! After a lot of hard work, the PowerShell Deep Dives book will be available (Print edition) on 26 July with the e-book available now. As one of the co-authors of this book, I can tell you that … Continue reading →

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Create a Hard Link Using PowerShell

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Boe Prox

Following on the heels of my last article where I talked about creating a symbolic link using PowerShell, I figured I would throw another script out there that will do what mklink.exe does with creating a hard link and do … Continue reading →

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Creating a Symbolic Link using PowerShell

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Boe Prox

Recently, I had a need to create a symbolic link while running a scan on some systems and found that there was not a native way in PowerShell to accomplish this. Now I can use mklink.exe to make this work, … Continue reading →

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Font Dialog Selection using PowerShell

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Boe Prox

While I was working on an update to my PoshChat project, one of the requests that I had was to allow for font size changes on the client UI. I wanted the user to have the capability to not only … Continue reading →

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Using the WSUS API and PowerShell to Perform Maintenance on the SUSDB Database

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Boe Prox

In my previous article, I showed how you can utilize the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) API to connect to the SUSDB database that is being used by the WSUS server to perform T-SQL queries against the database for information. … Continue reading →

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